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| Table Of Contents Simple album Add captions Hiding Photos Using A Theme Medium images Adding some EXIF captions Adding more albums Translated by:
    1:   Simple album

    Presuming you've already installed album properly, we can do some
    simple cases.  If you have any errors or problems here, see the
    installation docs.

    You need a web directory to put themes and your photo album.
    We'll use /home/httpd/test in this documentation.  This needs
    to be viewable by a webserver.  In this example we'll use the URL:
      http://myserver/test/

    Adjust your commands/URLs appropriately

    First create a directory and put some images in it.  We'll call this:
      /home/httpd/test/Photos

    And we'll add some images called 'IMG_001.jpg' through 'IMG_004.jpg'

    Now for the simple case, just run album:

    % album /home/httpd/test/Photos

    Now you can view the album in a web browser at something like:
      http://myserver/test/Photos

    2:   Add captions

    Create a file /home/httpd/test/Photos/captions.txt with the following
    contents (use the 'tab' key where you see "  [tab]  ")

    -- captions.txt ---------
    IMG_001.jpg  [tab]  First image name
    IMG_002.jpg  [tab]  Second image
    IMG_003.jpg  [tab]  Another image  [tab]   with a caption!
    IMG_004.jpg  [tab]  Last image     [tab]   with another caption.
    -------------------------

    And run album again:

    % album /home/httpd/test/Photos

    And you'll see the captions change.

    Now create a file with text in: /home/httpd/test/Photos/header.txt

    And run album again.  You'll see that text at the top of the page.

    3:   Hiding Photos

    There are a few ways to hide photos/files/directories, but we'll use
    the captions file.  Try commenting out an image with '#' in captions.txt:

    -- captions.txt ---------
    IMG_001.jpg  [tab]  First image name
    #IMG_002.jpg  [tab]  Second image
    IMG_003.jpg  [tab]  Another image  [tab]   with a caption!
    IMG_004.jpg  [tab]  Last image     [tab]   with another caption.
    -------------------------

    Run album again, and you'll see that IMG_002.jpg is now missing.
    If we had done this before running album the first time, we wouldn't
    have ever generated the medium or thumbnail images.  If you like,
    you can remove them now with -clean:

    % album -clean /home/httpd/test/Photos

    4:   Using A Theme

    If themes were installed properly and are in your theme_path then
    you should be able to use a theme with your album:

    % album -theme Blue /home/httpd/test/Photos

    The photo album should now be using the Blue theme.  If it has
    a bunch of broken images, then your theme probably hasn't been
    installed into a web-accessible directory, see the Installation docs.

    Album saves the options you specify, so the next time you run album:

    % album /home/httpd/test/Photos

    You'll still be using the Blue theme.  To turn off a theme, you can:

    % album -no_theme /home/httpd/test/Photos

    5:   Medium images

    Full resolution images are usually too big for a web album, so
    we'll use medium images on the image pages:

    % album -medium 33% /home/httpd/test/Photos

    You can still access the full size images by clicking on the medium image, or:

    % album -just_medium /home/httpd/test/Photos

    Will keep the full size image from being linked in (presuming we'd
    run with the -medium option at some point)

    6:   Adding some EXIF captions

    Let's add aperture info to the captions of each image.

    % album -exif "<br>aperture=%Aperture%" /home/httpd/test/Photos

    This will only add aperture information for any images that have specified
    the 'Aperture' exif tag (the part between the '%' signs).  We also put
    a <br> tag in there so the exif info is on a new line.

    We can add more exif info:

    % album -exif "<br>focal: %FocalLength%" /home/httpd/test/Photos

    Because album saved our options before, we now get both EXIF tags for any
    images that specify Aperture and FocalLength.  Let's remove aperture:

    % album -no_exif "<br>aperture=%Aperture%" /home/httpd/test/Photos

    The '-no_exif' option has to match the previous exif string exactly or
    it will be ignored.  You can also edit the config file that album created:
      /home/httpd/test/Photos/album.conf
    And remove it there.

    7:   Adding more albums

    Let's say we go on a trip to spain.  We take some photos and put them in:
      /home/httpd/test/Photos/Spain/

    Now run album again on the top level:

    % album /home/httpd/test/Photos

    This will fixup Photos so it now links to spain and will run album
    on Spain/ as well, with the same settings/theme, etc..

    Now let's go on another trip, and we create:
      /home/httpd/test/Photos/Italy/

    We could run album on the top level:

    % album /home/httpd/test/Photos

    But that would rescan the Spain directory which hasn't changed.
    Album usually won't generate any HTML or thumbnails unless it needs to,
    but it can still waste time, especially as our albums get bigger.
    So we can tell it to just add the new directory:

    % album -add /home/httpd/test/Photos/Italy

    This will fix the top index (in Photos) and generate the Italy album.

    8:   Translated by:

    David Ljung Madison  [http://GetDave.com/]
Created by make_faq from Marginal Hacks

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